Posts Tagged ‘Forteana’
Rare Headshrinking Footage Confirmed?
What could be the only footage of an actual human headshrinking ceremony in South America — which shows heads being boiled and dried — may be real, says an explorer in a new documentary.
British Women Claims to Have Two Vaginas
Darragh Worland writes on Tonic:
This story is so peculiar and conjures so many images and questions that we just couldn’t resist mentioning it. Model-turned-talk-show host Tyra Banks had what she called an “international exclusive” interview on her Tyra show Friday with a woman who says she was born with two vaginas.
Yes, you heard right!
Banks opens the interview by saying, “It’s already tough enough having one vagina, and you have two. So, OK: two of everything?”
Lauren, 29, whose last name isn’t mentioned, seems to have a good attitude about her double trouble. She answers Banks’ questions without embarrassment, admitting that she “thinks” she has two periods given that hers last a whopping 21 days. Yikes! (More on Tonic)
Taxidermist Brings Flying Monkeys and Frankensquirrels to Unlife
Lauren Davis writes on io9.com:
Need an unusual gift for the cryptozoologist in your life? Sculptor Sabrina Brewer’s medium is dead animals, which she mixes and matches to create fantastical creatures, from the more traditional griffins and unicorns to El Chupacabra and undead three-headed squirrels.
More on io9.com
Aliens Regret Policy of Only Abducting Lone Weirdos
From NewsBiscuit:
Extra-terrestrials have today conceded that a decades-long programme of abduction to gather detailed knowledge of human society and biology might have produced better results had they looked beyond suggestible loners with a history of mental health problems.‘In hindsight, I suppose there was always going to be a limit to the intelligence we could get from a depressed farmer drink-driving his tractor at 2am,’ said an alien spokesbeing today. ‘We were disappointed to find that the majority of these people from isolated rural communities were not as well-connected to the planet’s major political powers as we’d hoped, and in truth they only confused our understanding of the human race. For a time we weren’t sure the species had a definitive stance on incest, or indeed what the correct number of…
Ever Dream This Man?
Every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face.
WEIRD. This is like something out of Twin Peaks. Or a Todd Barry comedy routine.
from thisman.org
HISTORY
In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.
That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist’s desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.
The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.
From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.
At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams.
The aim of this website is:
- to help those who have seen this man in their dreams and to foster communication among them;
- to understand who this man is and why he appears in an apparently pattern-less array of situations in the dreams of such diverse human subjects.
Cow in Argentina Abducted by UFO: The Analysis
Finally! The good folks at Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic Ufology decided to break this down for us. Enjoy. Silvia Pérez Simondini writes:
“There Can Be No Better Proof”
Many years ago, ever since 2002, VISION OVNI was expecting evidence such as this, simply because it is one of the most analyzed hypotheses that our team has worked with, since no traces of blood are ever found next to the mutilated animals, certainly indicating that animals were not being mutilated on site. Rather, they were being removed to another location, and evidently, no black helicopters were involved — only UFOs, unidentified flying object.
At this point in time I would like to know what happened to the red-muzzled mouse, what became of the famous Chupacabras, the yellow jacket, and the other explanations put forth by officialdom to dodge the subject of mutilations.
Personally speaking, I am more than pleased, as the number of animals seen by our team over the years deserved knowing that at least someone tried to find an answer to their deaths. And these answers came from a phenomenon we never dismissed out of hand, but rather, we always knew was the result of unknown hands, regardless of their origin.
Jon Ronson’s ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’ Now A Film
I can’t believe they turned this book into a film. Looking forward to it. (Official Site)
‘Independence Day’-Shaped Cloud Hovering Over Moscow
Reported on the Daily Mail:
In what could have been a scene from the film Independence Day, a luminous ring-shaped cloud could be seen hovering over the city of Moscow last week.
The pale gold ‘halo’ could be seen above the Russian capital city’s Western District on Wednesday, and was captured on film by stunned Muscovites.
Meteorologists rejected any theories of the supernatural however, calling it an optical effect.
Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil’s Echolocation
Lauren Davis writes on io9.com:
Blind superhero Daredevil could identify his surroundings by listening to sounds as they bounced off objects. Now a blind boy in Britain has learned to use echolocation himself, a technique that can be taught to others.
Seven-year old Lucas Murray has learned to “see” objects around him by clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth and listening to the sounds that come back to him. Although he may not get the full Daredevil effect, he can identify the distance, shape, density and position of objects around him, as well as whether an object or person is coming or going. Being able to identify objects in this way is a great boon to his independence, and he can navigate a room or a playground — and even…
Hell Planet Where Rocks Fall As Rain Found
Tom Chivers writes in the Telegraph:
Computer models of COROT-7b, a planet orbiting an orange dwarf star in the constellation Monoceros, 490 light years away, suggest that the world has a surface temperature hot enough to boil rock.
The research, by scientists at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, conjures up a vision of hell.
COROT-7b, a rocky planet around twice the size of the Earth but of similar density, is only 1.6 million miles from its star: 23 times closer than the innermost planet in our solar system, Mercury, is to the Sun.
(Image at above right: An artist’s impression of COROT-7b, where pebbles fall as rain. Photo: European Southern Observatory)
This proximity means that the planet is gravitationally locked, like the Moon to the Earth, so that one side of the planet always…
Taryn Simon Photographs Secret Sites
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (Video):
Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography — to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.
Watch video in high res here.
Why Don’t Pregnant Women Tip Over?
Robert Quigley writes on the Austin American-Statesman:
A University of Texas researcher has been awarded the tongue-in-cheek “IgNobel” prize for answering this age-old question: “Why don’t pregnant women tip over?”
Liz Shapiro, a UT anthropologist, and two fellow researchers at Harvard won the prize on Thursday for their 2007 study. The IgNoble prize is dedicated to “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”
The first human ancestor walked upright about 6 million years ago, but the first pregnant, upright-walking female very likely could have tipped over when she tried to walk … or at the very least had a really bad back ache.
It’s not really surprising how pregnant women avoid tipping over: they lean back. What Shapiro and the other researchers learned was that evolution has made that (somewhat) easier…
If Zombies Attack, The University of Florida Has A Plan
Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla.:
No one expects a zombie apocalypse. But the University of Florida is making sure officials are ready for a night of the living dead, just in case.
The school has a plan for responding to the undead on its Web site among outlines for dealing with hurricanes and pandemics.
The exercise lays out how university officials would respond to attacks by “flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals.” It notes that a zombie outbreak might include “documentation of lots of strange moaning.”
A University of Florida spokesman says the exercise was written by an employee at the school’s academic technology office to “add a little bit of levity” to disaster preparation discussions.
